Potentially avoidable hospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders

Alzheimer's and Dementia

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 30-38

  Lin, Pei Jung ^a   Fillit, Howard M ^b   Cohen, Joshua T ^a   Neumann, Peter J ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Alzheimers Drug Discovery Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; CDPD asthma; Comorbidity; Diabetes; Heart failure; High risk patients; Hospitalization; Hypertension; Medicare expenditures; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EARLY INTERVENTION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART FAILURE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; POTENTIALLY AVOIDABLE HOSPITALIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ASTHMA; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MEDICARE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872117246     PISSN: 15525260     EISSN: 15525279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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